Devoured would be a good word to describe what I did to the book I just read.  Since I finished Eleanor and Park, I was having difficulty getting into a new book.  I started a few, but none quite peaked my interest enough to keep reading.  I was worried I was going to lose the momentum I had built up and fall into a lull.  And then, I found Me Before You by Jojo Moyes.

One reviewer said it had a slow start, but being one who needs a book that pulls me in immediately, I didn’t feel like that was the case.  I was hooked right from the start with the sample I downloaded to my kindle.  I tore through the sample, downloaded the rest of the book and read 20% the first night I started it.  I finished the rest of it over the next 2 days!

You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. – Me Before You

The story is pretty simple.  Plain, ordinary girl finds herself as the caretaker of a quadriplegic man even though she has no experience doing so.  They are both from extremely different lives, but they (albeit reluctantly at first) bond with each other like no one else they’ve met before.  The story is about their 6 months together and how they change each other for the better.  It’s a funny, sweet, moving story that kept me interested the whole way through.  **warning** It is SAD so prepare yourself and have some tissues within reach!

Have you read Me Before You?  What did you think?